Visa requests for the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Abkhazia Sergey Shamba and Vice President of South Ossetia Boris Chocheyev have been sent to the US Embassy in Moscow, but the answer has not yet been received from the diplomatic mission, RIA Novosti reports with reference to the official representative of the Foreign Ministry Andrei Nesterenko. "We have not yet received a passport from the American embassy.

At the Paris Motor Show, Renault will present the concept of a hybrid crossover, which it considers to be a premium class vehicle. The model was called Ondelios. According to data provided by the automaker, the car is 4.8 meters long and ? 1.6 meters. Under the hood of the new product is a hybrid unit, which includes a 2.0-liter 205-horsepower diesel engine and two electric motors with a power of 20 kW each. In addition, the concept is equipped with lithium-ion batteries, Carscoop reports.

Another Russian air carrier was under the sight of the investigating authorities. A criminal case has been instituted against the Khabarovsk airline Dalavia under article 171 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (illegal entrepreneurship).

The ATP intends to achieve invalid the results of elections to the State Duma of the Russian Federation in the Strasbourg Court. For this, the leader of the “Union of Right Forces” Nikita Belykh intends to personally visit Strasbourg in October to find out when the European Court of Human Rights will consider the statement from the organization headed by him, Interfax reports.

About 200 thousand people took part in the "Unity Chain", which on Friday took place in the western regions of Ukraine in support of President’s policy Viktor Yushchenko. This was reported in the press service of the public campaign "The Unity Chain", reports Newsru.ua with reference to UNIAN . However, the ITAR-TASS agency claims that the supporters of President Viktor Yushchenko were able to collect not 200 thousand, as stated, but an order of magnitude less.

The opening of the ABBA group, which was scheduled for June 3 next year, is postponed for an indefinite time. The contract for renting a house in the Stockholm Haban Stadsgorden in the center of the capital, which was supposed to accommodate a new attraction of the city, is torn by the sides signed by the administrations of the museum and the harbor, ITAR -TASS reports. "The only thing we are sure of is that the opening will take place. But we do not know when and where.

The head of the government of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin, at a meeting with Deputy Prime Minister Sergei Ivanov, announced a significant increase in financing the Russian Glonass Global Navigation System for the coming three years. "I have just signed a government decree on increasing financing by 67 billion rubles GLONASS program - global space navigation and positioning," said the head of the Cabinet of Ministers, opening the meeting.

In Greece, the police found an 8-year-old Italian who was abducted four years ago and was wanted through the channels of Interpol. This story inspires new hopes for the discovery of British Madlen McCan , who disappeared without a trace in 2007. The alleged Denise Pipiton, who was already 8 years old, found Greek police on the island of Kos. The 29-year-old gypsy, who first impersonated the girl’s mother, already confessed that it was not her child.

The candidate for the president of the United States from the Democratic Party of Barack Obama "will win the elections and win very skillfully." This forecast was made by the former owner of the White House Bill Clinton. On Thursday, he met with Obama in New York, where both were present at mourning events on the occasion of the 7th anniversary of the attacks in the United States on September 11, 2001.

Russia demands that the UN International Court reject the lawsuit of Georgia about the violations of the Russian Federation allegedly taking place in Abkhazia and South Ossetia. "We confirmed our requirement that the court does not satisfy the request for temporary measures and, moreover, completely removed the lawsuit of Georgia from consideration," the official representative of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation Andrei Nesterenko told reporters on Friday in Moscow.

The premiere of the "Blue Monster" based on the play of the famous Italian playwright Carlo Gozzi opens on Friday his new season of the capital's "Satyricon" theater. The philosophical fairy tale, written in 1764, was first shown in Venice, ITAR-TASS reports. Then it went in other cities and countries, but it was very rare in Russia.

The Irish developer Pi Doherty came up with an unusual house sale scheme. When buying one apartment in the Irish resort Milford, the second, located on the Black Sea coast of Bulgaria, is given to the investor for free. The developer decided on a similar step after he could not sell five real estate objects in his Milford project within eight months.

The head of the French oil company Total, Christoph de Margeri, said that oil prices have fallen to the level when a number of new and ambitious projects for the extraction of "difficult" oil are becoming disadvantageous. His opinion is given by the London Financial Times . Among those who are on the verge of profitability of projects in which Total is involved - oil sands in the Canadian province of Albert and deep -sea deposits at the Atlantic shelf of Angola.

The Secretary General of NATO YAAP de Hoop Scheffer during the visit today to Riga intends to discuss the consequences of the conflict in Georgia for security in the Baltic region with the Foreign Minister of the Baltic Foreign Affairs. This is one of the official goals of the visit. Of course, the visit itself was planned for a long time, but the situation in the Caucasus has somewhat "corrected" its agenda.

According to the study of the American agency Dow Jones Index Insight, a three-time Olympic champion and three-time record holder of the world in athletics, Yamaets Usain Bolt, became the most popular athlete of the 2008 Olympic Games by mention in the printed English-language media.